An assessment from a senior Israeli intelligence officer in August 2023 warning that Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...was readying for a large-scale attack was suppressed and not passed on to senior military brass in the months prior to the Paleostinian terror group’s brutal October 7, 2023, massacre, according to a Saturday evening report.
According to Channel 12, a senior Israel Defense Forces official named only by his first initial as "Maj. Nun" wrote the assessment that there had been a change in the feasibility of war with Hamas, based on dire warnings from two counterintelligence officers from the military’s 8200 signals intelligence unit, as he was leaving his role in August last year.
The report said that in the presentation, Nun had warned that while intelligence indicated that Hamas was preparing for a very broad operation, the IDF was readying only for a scenario of up to four simultaneous incursions from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip.
He wrote that the intelligence indicated that "several basic assumptions" should be challenged, according to the report, and suggested resuming monitoring Hamas’s elite Nukhba force. It was the Nukhba force that led thousands of Paleostinian
Unit 8200, one of the IDF units pointed to as playing a role in the failure to prevent October 7, reportedly stopped listening in to the handheld radios of Hamas operatives in Gaza around a year before the onslaught because it was seen as a "waste of effort."
Nun was reportedly the officer responsible for presenting a document obtained by Unit 8200 in April 2022 setting out Hamas’s plans for what proved to be the October 7 invasion and slaughter in southern Israel.
The existence of the document, which Israeli military intelligence codenamed "Jericho Walls," was first reported by the Kan broadcaster and detailed by The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
in November 2023.
As reported by Hebrew media last year, it was not seen by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi before the October 7 attack. It was also not seen by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-defense minister Yoav Gallant, or the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
According to the timeline laid out by Channel 12 on Saturday, the IDF chief was briefed on Hamas’s military training drills in September 2023, but Nun’s warnings were left out of the presentation.
Instead, the warnings were assessed by the bigwig’s commanding officer, named in the report as "Lt. Gen. Alef," as warning of a "pompous and unrealistic scenario." He ordered Nun’s successor to create a new document on Hamas training preparations to present to Halevi that did not mention the "Jericho Walls" plan.
According to the reports, the 40-page "Jericho Walls" plan laid out almost exactly how Hamas eventually wound up carrying out the attack.
The Times wrote: "The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and button men to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on cycle of violences and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7."
Israeli intelligence officers who did see the plan reportedly determined that the terror group was incapable of carrying out an assault of such a large scope — or possibly unwilling — and dismissed concerns about it.
Saturday night’s report was the latest in a long series of revelations that began emerging soon after October 7 about intelligence material in Israel’s hands pointing to the looming Hamas invasion that was ignored, dismissed, or misinterpreted. The TV channel said its report was compiled under military censorship limitations.
Last month, the IDF chief instructed the military to "accelerate the timetables" for the conclusion of its investigations into the October 7 onslaught, to meet a January 31 deadline set by Defense Minister Israel Katz.
The government has refused to appoint a state commission of inquiry and has opposed any probes that could include looking at political failures surrounding the devastating surprise attack, its lead-up, and its aftermath.
The attack sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, which has also seen fighting on several other fronts as well against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
— which backs Hamas — and its various other proxy groups in the region.